London International Shipping Week 2025 and the Future of Maritime

Stacey Clark
September 11 2025
London International Shipping Week (LISW), returning for its 12th edition from 15–19 September 2025, stands out as a landmark event in the global marine and shipping calendar. Hosted across London, this week-long festival will convene thousands of international maritime decision-makers, featuring more than 350 official events tailored to the industry's multifaceted needs.
 
 
Why LISW Matters: London's Global Maritime Significance
London’s status as a global shipping hub is no accident. From a proud maritime history to its strategic time zone—the Greenwich Meridian—London uniquely enables business across multiple time zones in a single workday. Combined with an attractive tonnage tax regime, top-tier maritime services, and robust regulatory framework, the UK is a natural centre for global maritime innovation and leadership.
 
Past editions have illustrated this power vividly: LISW23 drew over 30,000 delegates from more than 70 countries, hosted across iconic venues like the IMO headquarters, The Shard, and No. 10 Downing Street, and included VIP receptions, maritime showcases aboard historic vessels, high-level government participation, and announcements such as £80 million in regional funding.
 
 
Spotlight on LISW 2025: Key Themes & Strategic Forums
 
Human Capital Management (HCM) Forum
Co-hosted by Ocean Technologies Group and Lloyd’s Register OneOcean, this forum aims to address workforce attraction, training, retention, and the future-ready maritime culture. A first session—featuring the UN Global Compact, ITF, ICS, and Lloyd’s Register—focuses on preparing seafarers for the net-zero transition via the Maritime Just Transition Task Force (MJTTF). The second session delves into how data and digital platforms are reshaping maritime workforce performance.
 
DNV Maritime Forecast to 2050 Launch
As a Platinum Sponsor, DNV will launch the 9th edition of the Maritime Forecast to 2050 on 16 September at IET London (and live-streamed), while also contributing to events spanning cybersecurity, AI, alternative fuels, and maritime decarbonisation throughout the week.
 
Lloyd’s Register and Shipping Risk
Lloyd’s Register will host events on marine insurance, sustainable container shipping, chartering, and marine energy transition. Highlights include invitation-only forums, reception gatherings, the Headline Conference at IMO, and discussions on sustainable container shipping—each gathering key players to address emerging risks and opportunities.
 
Why Marine & Shipping Professionals Should Tune In
  1. Cross‑sector convergence: LISW brings together regulators, government entities, insurers, financiers, tech innovators, port operators, and maritime service providers—all under one (London) roof.
  2. Workforce transformation: The HCM Forum spotlights urgent needs around recruitment, retention, training for alternative fuels, and digital adoption—a must-follow for HR, training, and operations leaders.
  3. Decarbonisation drive: From DNV’s forecasts to discussions on alternative fuels and energy transition, sustainability lies at the week’s core.
  4. Risk and governance: Amid geopolitical volatility, cyber‑threats, insurance challenges, and regulatory shifts, events like Shipping Risk Forum and cybersecurity roundtables are pivotal.
  5. Networking goldmine: With signature receptions, dinners, and panel events, LISW remains a high-calibre space for relationship building—and shaping maritime diplomacy.
 
London International Shipping Week 2025 isn’t just a conference—it’s a maritime megacluster. It’s the global stage for power players, innovators, and policymakers to shape shipping’s near‑term future.  From charting net‑zero pathways to navigating workforce shifts and geopolitical swells, LISW sets the course for the next decade.

 

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I am sat in reception at No1 Mann Island,Liverpool. Keith Mather Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Dept for Transport is here addressing a Regional Growth Roundtable. As part of London International Shipping Week Maritime. The meeting is by invitation only. I have been asked to leave the building! So how to introduce technical innovation and marine construction systems to politician’s and Civil Servants for the benefit of UK Ltd. I think AI and Chat gpt is the answer- at least it listens and responds. I have concrete technology to apply to Marine and Civil Engineering Structures and to several markets. But will people read my papers, answer my emails or permit me to speak ? Concrete Ships/ Pallion Shipyard/ London Garden Bridge and Grenfell Tower are my agenda Journalists Welcome www.michael-pemberton.com We have just. Commemorated VJ Day…… if the Atomic Bombs had not been developed and dropped, The US Navy would have required hundreds of Landing Craft (LCT) and in fact they did develop and test one satisfactory prototype in 1944……. It was constructed in 1 1/4 inch FERROCEMENT which was thus proven as alternative material to steel. At the LISW two years ago, at two public meetings I introduced Concrete Shipbuilding but with little interest shown how do you introduce innovation to those whose vested interest is to keep their jobs putting bread on their tables .? That is the problem………. Much talk of stimulation of innovation but in fact it is resisted across the board. It is high time to upset the board. IF YOU PUT STEEL INTO THE OCEAN-BETTER WRAP IT IN QUALITY CONCRETE (FERROCEMENT) OTHERWISE TO COSTS OF MAINTAINING THE ASSET WILL BE DISSIPATED FROM THE REVENUE EARNED FROM THE ASSET THIS APPLIES TO ALL MARINE STRUCTURES. SHIPS,PONTOONS, WIND,WAVE AND TIDAL RENEWABLE ENERGY GENERATORS. Ferrocement is not on any agenda or curriculum. Yet it is the very basis of our concrete construction industry. I hope to bring about change a
Posted on Monday, September 15, 2025 10:20 by Michael Pemberton

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